Stephenie Meyer

Stephenie Meyer, author of the wildly popular young adult series Twilight, has a science fiction novel coming out soon The Host : A Novel. Although the book is marketed for adults, her older teen fans might enjoy it as well.

You can read more about the author in a Time magazine article. The library has a copy, and you can also read it online at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1734838,00.html

- NB

What They Play

Parents looking for information on videogames will love this website! Shopping for a cool new game your kids will love? Wondering what exactly is in that game that earned it a "M for Mature" rating? Visitors to www.whattheyplay.com can check out What's New, the Hottest Games Right Now, and the Most Popular Games by ESRB Rating. There's even a Gamefinder that lets you search by console, type of game, player age, and rating. So do your homework and then get playing!
--KC

Not Just for Young Adults - Part 6

Sarah Dessen is one of the Young Adult Librarian's favorite authors. She writes wonderful realistic fiction. In her newest novel Lock And Key : A Novel , Ruby, abandoned by her mother, must go to live with the sister she has not seen in ten years. Throughout the novel, Ruby encounters interesting secondary characters as she learns to trust.

Although I did not enjoy it as much as my personal favorite The Truth About Forever, I would recommend the book to anyone looking for a good story about what it means to be a family and a friend.

- NB

New International Language Books - Check them out

LK

Support Teen Literature Day

The Young Adult Library Services Association created Support Teen Literature Day to highlight the wonderful world of young adult novels. The organization has teamed with Readergirlz to donate books to hospitals. To find out more go to the Readergirlz web site http://readergirlz.com/issue.html.

How can you support teen literature?

1. Visit the Teen Area of the Glenside Public Library and browse the thousands of fiction titles in the collection.
2. Bring your teen to the library to show him or her all the services the library offers.
3. Buy a teen a young adult book.
4. Ask the Young Adult Librarian for a book suggestion.

- NB

Twilight Movie Updates

For those of you who are as obsessed with Twilight by Stephenie Meyer as the Young Adult Librarian, here are some movie updates to hold you until the movie comes out on December 12.

The Twilight Moms have pictures from the set http://twilightmomsforums.freeforums.org/4-14-tmi-s-w-bella-and-edward-at-multnomah-falls-w-video-t5892.html

ET Online has a clip from the set
http://www.etonline.com/news/2008/04/60435/index.html

MTV also has a clip with interviews with the actors
http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1585325&vid=224215

You can also keep posted by visiting Stephenie Meyer's own web site. There is a movie page http://stepheniemeyer.com/twilight_movie.html

- NB

Pizza, Pop and Paperbacks

PIZZA, POP, AND PAPERBACKS
Grades 5-7
Thursday, April 17
4-5 PM
This program introduces Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko. This book is about a boy and his autistic sister who live on Alcatraz island in 1935 because their father works for the prison.

Free copies of the book will be distributed to each participant at the program.
Registration begins April 10 in the Youth Services Department.

There are a few spots still available.

To learn more about the children who grew up on Alcatraz try

Children of Alcatraz : Growing Up on the Rock by Claire Rudolf Murphy.

- NB

April 14, a Titanic day in history

On this day, April 14, in 1912, the Cunard liner Titanic struck the iceberg that would ultimately sink her the following day. Why not commemorate this historic day? Here are some possibilities:

Swoon with Kate and Leo and enjoy that Celine Dion song while watching the 1997 James Cameron film, Titanic.

Learn the Secrets of the Titanic while watching the first team to photograph the sunken ship.

Listen to the Titanic film music on Back to Titanic.

Read the classic book about the disaster, A Night to Remember, by Walter Lord.

Toast the doomed ship and her lost souls with a tall, iceberg--okay, ice-cube--filled cocktail. Get a recipe from the downloadable ebook 1000 Best Bartender’s Recipes.


-jb

National Library Week Contest for Teens

Patrons in grades 6-12 may enter the National Library Week Word Search Contest. Word searches will be available at the Adult Services Desk from April 13-19. Everyone who completes the word search gets a small prize. One winner will be selected from all correct entries to receive a $20 Barnes & Noble gift card.

- NB

Something good from the oven

For those who love to bake (and eat), the library has some delicious new arrivals.

King Arthur Flour has produced some of the most well respected and easy to use books on baking. These new cookbooks feature not only delicious recipes but simple directions and common sense tips. The three titles just in are; the Baker's Companion, Whole-Grain Baking, and the Cookie Companion.

Also just in are the highly regarded Bread Baker's Apprentice by Peter Reinhart and The Bread Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum.

-jb

Poem for April 3

Hear "He ate and drank the precious words..." by Emily Dickinson

UPDATE: As you may have noticed, the player has been moved to the left side of this page. Check back for more poems.

A Poem for April 2

April is National Poetry Month and we here at Glenside would like to celebrate it by providing you with a poem read by one of our staff members. Today's selection is

"The Prairie States"

by Walt Whitman

Here this and other podcasts on our Gcast podcast page.